That is a nice method to compute determinants of matrices. I wish they taught this method when I was in high school. As John D Cook points out, the fact that

That is a nice method to compute determinants of matrices. I wish they taught this method when I was in high school. As John D Cook points out, the fact that the core 2x2 matmul operations that can be done in parallel is a big benefit for doing this in software or hardware.